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In this examination we have experimented the effect of ammonia concentration on shortcut nitrification and denitrification in a moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR). The results show that, when the influent ammonia concentration slowly increased to 200 mg/L, the ammonia removal rate and the nitrite accumulation...

This study aimed to develop a functional drink based on Hibiscus rosa-sinensis and evaluate the chemical, and sensory properties. The functional drink was made in a traditional method using hibiscus leaves juice and then diluted to several concentrations. The experiment was carried out using a completely...

Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea spectabilis Willd) and red ashoka (Ixora cocinea) flowers contains natural color pigment, namely anthocyanins. Anthocyanin levels in these two flowers are high enough so that can be used as natural color pigment. Anthocyanins can be used as an indicator for detection of borax...

Background: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is associated with cardiovascular disease. Microalbuminuria (MA), its traditional hallmark, reflects both renal and generalised vascular damage. We previously established a urinary proteomic classifier (CKD273) for early DN prediction that correlates with other biomarkers...

The language of Muara Jambi village has already established itself in the international world of archeology with a word grown on its own land: menapo. This is how the villagers refer to the mysterious temple complexes surrounded by walls and canals, many of which are still piles of ruins and earth mounds...

The climate change has an impact on various lives, including in the vector breeding. The Anopheles resistance as an infectious agent of Plasmodium is harmful for life, especially to non-target organisms and the environment. Nano-silver (Ag2NO3), is a new form of engineering in vector control. The aim...

Dyslipidemia is a lipid metabolism disorder with an imbalance of lipid fraction in plasma, including increase in total cholesterol, LDL, TGA, and decrease in HDL. Changes in lipid profile levels can be influenced by several factors, namely diet, physical activity, lifestyle, age, sex, and genetics. Poor...

Waste is an unused material by the previous owner, anyway the waste can reused by managing it properly. The Problem In big cities commonly waste that comes from settlements and traditional markets. Most of the waste produced by traditional markets (95%) is organic waste. The way to overcome the problem...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a condition in which the myocardium does not get enough blood and oxygen supply. Modifiable risk factors for CHD include hypertension and diabetes melitus. This study aims to determine the prevalence of history of hypertension and diabetes melitus in coronary heart disease...

The term “Sustainable farming (SF)” relates to a general approach, a broad production system using methods that involve society (farmers), environment, and economy. This concept aims to support health and well-being of the society and to work with nature, while still aiming for being profitable businesses,...

Ischemia reperfusion injury (I/R) at kidney has known as the primary cause of AKI and the most seeing through it. Chlorogenic acid (chlorogenic acid/CGA) is one of the most common polyphenols in the human diet. Chlorogenic acid has an antioxidant effect, antiapoptosis, antiinflammation, antifobrosis....

Breadfruit leaves contain antioxidant including flavonoids and phenolics compound. This study aims to analyze the chemical characteristics (antioxidant capacity, phenolic and flavonoid content) of sinom drinks sourced from breadfruit leaves. The experimental design was employed by treatment of ratio...

The Urantia Community consists of people with the same interest in spiritual values taught in The Urantia Book, a book that taught the origins of the universe, the history of the earth, values of life, philosophy, and spiritual. The community has existed since the 1950s in the United States and has expanded...

Background: The aim of the study was to asses sex-dependent differences of obesity indices and inflammatory markers in non-diabetic hypertensive obese patients. Material and methods: 40 females and 25 males aged 59.8 ±10.1 and 54.6±11.9 years, respectively, were enrolled into the study. Serum TNF-α,...

Olive leaf (Olea europeae) contains the primary polyphenols: oleuropein, hydroxytyrosol, luteolin 7-glucoside, apigenin 7-glucoside, and verbascoside. Empirically olive leaf is used for lowering blood sugar because it has antioxidant properties. This study aimed to determine the antihyperglycemic activity...

Integrin avb3 is expressed at high density in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). It functions as a receptor for adhesion proteins in VSMCs which phenotypic modulation plays a pivotal role in arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis. The aim was to study the role of integrin avb3 in angiotensin II (Ang...

Two denim wastewater treatment processes are investigated for their efficiencies to remove the surfactant, nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEOs). It is found that the acrid environment of the simulated denim wastewater shows no influence on the removal of NPEOs. After treatment through hydrolysis anaerobic...

17-β Estradiol (E2), estrone (E1), and testosterone (T) are steroid hormones formed naturally by humans and animals or derived from synthetic sources. These steroid hormones are frequently used in aquaculture farms to increase production and treat diseases. However, there are concerns about the presence...

The occurrence of metal corrosion can greatly reduce the air-conditioning efficiency, and even affect the safe and stable operation of equipment in central air-conditioning cooling water circulation system. Adding corrosion inhibitor to cooling water system is currently the most commonly and effective...

Introduction: Paget’s disease is a metabolic disorder of bone in which osteoclasts are more active than osteoblasts, resulting in increased bone resorption and compensated by excessive formation of new bone contributed by osteoblasts. Bones affected with Paget’s Disease stimulate hypervascularization,...

Compost is a local product that has proven effective in soil remediation. Its performance is attributed to the diversity of microbes and nutrients that augment indigenous soil microbes and stimulate biodegradation processes respectively. Improving its performance is imperative to reduce the influx of...

Hiperglikemia in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM) have an impact on increasing the coagulation activity of the human homeostatic system. DM is a comorbidity of stroke. An increase of Platelet Count (PC) and Mean Platelet Volume (MPV) is useful for assessing the prognosis and severity of ischemic stroke....

The production process in the gondorukem industry produces solid waste in the form of litter, twigs, and pine tree leaves. In this study, solid waste from the gondorukem industry was processed into activated carbon as an adsorbent to improve the color quality of the gondorukem. The workings of this research...

Caffeine is a stimulant that increase alertness in the body. However, little is known on the toxicity effects of caffeine in ICR mice. This study aimed to identify the toxicity effects of caffeine in ICR mice for further anti-malarial investigation. Adult ICR mice were injected with caffeine (5, 10,...

Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a deregulated host response to infection, and is the most common cause of death in the intensive care unit. Although the pathogenesis of sepsis has made substantial progress, the current clinical treatment of sepsis is basically symptomatic treatment,...

Chinese furniture industry has beco- me the world's furniture manufacturing center after a rapid period of development in the past 25 years. China also has become the world's largest furniture pr- oduction and export country. However, most of the furniture enterprise haven’t strong competitiveness. How...

Liver cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Treatment that has been carried out was chemotherapy which has many disadvantages. Bandotan Herb (Ageratum conyzoides L.) containing flavonoid compounds was used as chemopreventive agents. This research was experimental study using...

Based on long-term stationary and field experiments (1977-2017), the optimal parameters of soil fertility (gray forest, dark gray forest, leached chernozem) were established. The highest economically and ecologically justified productivity of agrocenoses is obtained when the density of addition for cereals...

Ethyne forms a weak charge-transfer complex with surface catalysts such as Mg.porphin in which the ethyne group has a net positive charge (0.08), and the conjugated porphin has a negative charge. This neutral complex is polarised and undergoes a nucleophilic addition reaction with ammonia at the carbene...

The peak of love is rebellion, A process of liberating oneself from falsity, Toward an essential self, In finding one's natural self

This study aimed at analysing the nutritional and fatty acid composition of a bowl of meatball soup sold by 5 bakso Malang restaurants in Malang, Indonesia. The analysis was performed according to the instructions for food and beverage testing outlined in the Indonesian National Standard (SNI) 01-2891-1992....

Experiments aimed at studying the concentration of gibberellin and light against the growth of Orchid Plantlet Dendrobium taurulium J. J. Smit. This experiment was carried out at the Faculty of Agriculture Universitas Winaya Mukti, Sumedang West Java. Trial began in May and ended of August 2018. The...

Prediabetes is a condition blood glucose levels are higher than normal but lower than diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. Parameters prediabetes according to the American Diabetes Association 2017, blood glucose levels ≥100 - <126 mg/dL in impaired fasting glucose, ≥ 12 mg/dL in impaired glucose tolerance...

Sungkai leaf extract (Peronema canescens Jack.) has been used traditionally to cure various diseases for humans. This research aimed to determine the immunostimulant effect of sungkai leaf extract using the carbon clearance method, the total of leukocyte cells, and the percentage of leukocyte cell types....

Emblic fruit wine rich in alcohol, phenolics. This experiment adopts the reverse high performance liquid chro-matography (HPLC) method for emblic leafflower fruit wine representative of phenolics gallic acid, quercetin content determination of study; And the emblic leafflower fruit forint phenol method...

With the rapid development of the Internet, artificial intelligence has gain widespread concern. Under the background, as one closely related discipline sentiment analysis's relevant research work have also been expanded. First, the paper analy existing text sentiment analysis method, compare the effect...

With the increasing in production and application, graphene will inevitable be released into the aquatic environment and have impacts on aquatic organisms. In this work, we investigated the toxicity of graphene to algal cells (Chlorella pyrenoidosa) in the presence of dissolved organic matter. The results...

Prolactinoma, is the most common type of pituitary adenoma. Signs and symptoms are due to either the effect of excess hormone secretion or local compression. Here we report a male patient with prolactinoma presented with high prolactin level, severe headache, diffuse arthralgias, visual field impairment,...

Olives has been mentioned in holly books, Quran and Bible, as medicinal and good nutritional food. People using it as a herbal medicine for centuries. However, we concern about its toxicity to some organs tissues. In this study, we observed histopathological changes on stomach, liver and kidney tissues...

Oxidative stress plays pivotal roles in heightening the pathology of diabetic nephropathy. Widely known free radical scavenger, edaravone (3-methyl-1-phenyl-2-pyrazoline-5-one), has been proven to give benefits in cardiovascular and brain diseases by attenuating oxidative stress. Additionally, whether...

In this work, alloy coatings with different Al and Mg content have been prepared on overhead ground wires for Zn-Al-Mg series hot-dip coatings providing good protection on mild steel surface against corrosion. A reinforced thermal stability is confirmed by DSC thermodynamic curves. Furthermore, the enhanced...

In this paper, an a-Si:H/a-SiC:H separated absorption and multiplication region superlattice avalanche photodiode (SAM-SAPD) is fabricated successfully by using combined effect of band edge discontinuity and build-in potential in p-n junction. We discuss the relationships among excess noise factor (Fe),...